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Breast-feeding in sub-Saharan Africa: outlook for 2000

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2007

ARP Walker
Affiliation:
Human Biochemistry Research Unit, School of Pathology of the University of the Witwaters-rand and the South African Institute for Medical Research, PO Box 1038, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa Tel: 011 489 9380, Fax: 011 489 9001, email: alexw@mail.saimr.wits.ac.za.
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